Making the Best Cake

Making the Best Cake

Cakes have long held the desert crown when it comes in important cultural events. We have cakes at birthday parties, weddings, and even at funerals. With such a diversity of events that cakes are used at finding the best cake for your ceremony is very important. There are three things that one should think about when choosing a cake. One, it must taste good and appeal to a variety of people. Two, it must be interesting and not boring. And three, it must look and feel appropriate to the ceremony (you would not have a three layer cake at a child’s birthday party, nor would you have a plain white cake with pink frosting at a wake).

Here are two recipes that are great for many occasions:
-- Three Layer Brown Stone Mountain Cake Recipe
-- Almond Shortcake Recipe

Three Layer Brown Stone Mountain Cake

For this cake you will need two sticks of margarine or butter, two cups of sugar, three eggs, three cups of flour, a teaspoon of backing powder and soda, a half teaspoon of salt, four tablespoons of Cocoa, a cup of water, a teaspoon of Vanilla extract, and a cup of buttermilk. First you need to mix the cocoa with the hot water and let it set. In another bowl you need to whip the butter, sugar, and eggs together, adding each ingredient slowly. Next do the same with the dry ingredients, adding the wet ingredients and mix well. You will need to bake this in three different nine inch pans, making sure to flour each one, bake at 350F, and cook for thirty minutes. You can ice these layers with your favorite icing or frosting.

Almond Shortcake

Short cake is a little different than other cakes. You need a cup and a half of almonds, two cups of flour, a fourth cup of sugar, two teaspoons of baking powder, one for baking soda, a half teaspoon of salt, six tablespoons of cold butter, a cup of buttermilk, a teaspoon of vanilla extract and almond extract, plus two table spoons of cream. Take your baking pan and sprinkle almonds on the bottom and bake them for about ten minutes. Mix all the dry ingredients in one bowl, then use a blender to make the dough hard (then sprinkle in the baked almonds). Pat the dough into the baking pan, making sure to dust it with sugar and flour to keep from burning.

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